35 percent of injury-related ER visits in Ghana alcohol-relatedResearchers conducted a cross-sectional chart review of 1,085 patients older than 18 who presented to the KATH emergency department within eight hours of an injury and found 382 subjects, or 35 percent, tested positive for any level of alcohol in their systems.

UV light improves smartphone camerasScientists found that treating an ordinary polymer based detector with UV light during manufacturing could turn it into a high bandwidth device with an external quantum efficiency of up to 140,000 percent, as compared to the 30 percent measured before UV treatment.

Nanosciences: Genes on the rackPhysicists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have developed a novel nanotool that provides a facile means of characterizing the mechanical properties of biomolecules.

Head lice outbreaks in camp settings cause substantial burden on kids, staffResearchers presenting an abstract of new findings at the American Academy of Pediatrics 2016 National Conference & Exhibition tracked lice infections in more than 500 summer camps over a three-year period and found 30 percent of camps have a 'no nit policy,' which excludes campers based on the presence of lice eggs, despite evidence that no-nit policies are not effective.

Found: Oldest known planet-forming diskA group of citizen scientists and professional astronomers, including Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné, joined forces to discover an unusual hunting ground for exoplanets.

A moving story of FHL2 and forcesResearchers from the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore have revealed the molecular events leading to the regulation of cell growth and proliferation in response to stiffness of the extracellular matrix that surrounds them.

UA receives $10.3 million to help unlock the mystery of Alzheimer's in womenWhy do more women than men get Alzheimer's disease? In their quest to find the answer, neuroscientist Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D., and her colleagues in the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, have been awarded a $10.3 million five-year Program Project Grant from the National Institute on Aging.

CCNY team develops analytics to predict poll trendsAs the countdown continues to the Presidential election, new analytical tools by physicists at The City College of New York promise a quicker and remarkably accurate method of predicting election trends with Twitter.

Mortality & cardiovascular disease: You don't have to be an athlete to reduce the many risk factorsA new study, whose preliminary results will be presented today at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress and soon be published in the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, shows that even low physical fitness, up to 20% below the average for healthy people, is sufficient to produce a preventive effect on most of the risk factors that affect people with cardiovascular disease.

John Innes Centre scientists solve 60-year-old Septoria mysteryA new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 percent.

Best Science Podcasts 2018

Peering Deeper Into SpaceThe past few years have ushered in an explosion of new discoveries about our universe. This hour, TED speakers explore the implications of these advances â and the lingering mysteries of the cosmos. Guests include theoretical physicist Allan Adams, planetary scientist Sara Seager, and astrophysicists Natasha Hurley-Walker and Jedidah Isler.

#461 AdhesivesThis week we're discussing glue from two very different times. We speak with Dr. Jianyu Li about his research into a new type of medical adhesive. And Dr. Geeske Langejans explains her work making and investigating Stone Age and Paleolithic glues.